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Christopher Pitt

Chris works in the bespoke team, at SilverStripe. He helps build and maintain many of the modules used in SilverStripe applications. He also teaches; speaking at local user groups and international conferences, and through technical blog posts and books.

He also enjoys building robots and connecting those to circuits inside Minecraft. When the machines take over, he hopes this will buy him some time to formulate a plan of escape.

Hooked on standards

Posted in Open Source, Developers

Tagged code

Posted 8 February 2017

In today's blog post, SilverStripe Principal Developer, Chris Pitt, talks about coding standards and why he is hooked on them.

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Saving the planet, one site at a time

Posted in Open Source, Developers

Tagged Addons, Module

Posted 30 August 2016

When you need to create a new layout, it's so easy to create a new Page type. But too many Page types could be bad for... the planet. Introducing SilverStripe Green.

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Goldilocks and the unsecured assets

Posted in Open Source, Developers

Tagged Module

Posted 6 July 2016

There's a module that helps you increase the security of your files. Let's take a look!

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Superglue Your Pages

Posted in Open Source

Tagged open source, Module

Posted 18 May 2016

Do you ever find yourself writing increasingly complex code, just to show interesting content on your home page? We've got the solution for you: Superglue module.

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SilverStripe 4.0: Changes to Files

Posted in Open Source

Tagged CMS

Posted 18 January 2016

With SilverStripe 4.0 expected to be released this year, we thought it would be a good time to talk about some of the new features it will contain.

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Open Source Module Lessons

Posted in Open Source

Tagged Module

Posted 7 January 2016

A new series of lessons to guide you through creating, releasing, and open sourcing your module.

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"Helpful Robot"

Posted in Developers

Tagged pull request

Posted 17 December 2015

On Thursday 19th November, at 18:29, witnesses saw a sudden surge of pull requests. read

The house that open source built: why release modules?

You don't have to create the next Apache web server, or Wikipedia. The code you're creating today could be just as valuable to the developers facing the same problems as you.

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Hosting in the Ocean

Hosting on virtual servers is daunting and exciting in equal parts. read

Battleship Minecraft! Fun and games at the Dutch PHP Conference

Posted in Company, Developers

Tagged Minecraft

Posted 3 July 2015

Last week the SilverStripe team headed to the Dutch PHP Conference. read

Release Candidate 3.1.13

Posted in Open Source, Developers

Tagged open source, CMS

Posted 14 May 2015

SilverStripe version 3. 1. read

Blog 2.0: Bigger. Better. Bloggier.

Over the last few weeks, we've been working hard to bring you a new (and… read

Open Source Goals: April - June 2015

Recently the teams at SilverStripe got together to talk about our goals for the next… read

Security update release 3.1.12

SilverStripe version 3. 1. read